Pinkhead v1 - Devlog

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Pinkhead is drawn pencil on paper. I used oil painting paper because I liked the linen-y texture it had. And I wasn't doing much oil painting. 

 
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They are scanned and edited, which was a finicky process. Most of the editing was trying to sharpen images without harshening the paper texture too much.

Someone suggested I scan paper texture and overlay them onto drawings from smooth paper. It would be very convincing I believe, especially if I scan several paper textures and rotate between them.


Here's one from a different paper texture. This is one of the earliest drawings I did for Pinkhead, but it only gets used in Pinkhead v3. 



It's from a sketchbook slightly too large to scan, so I took a picture of it, edited in Lightroom, then cleaned up in Medibang Paint (the software I used most for cleaning up the sketches)


Another thing was lettering, I tried a few fonts, but I thought it felt a little too jarring.
To keep it more "personal", I did the text like normal, then handwrote over it.


That's how I ended up at my final outcome. This first page goes a bit overboard with the contrast I admit. I think it dwarfs the text a little. But it does feel slightly more "out of the way" like I personally wanted it.


Here's an extra page that hasn't made the cut to any version of Pinkhead- yet.


Thanks for reading!


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